THE UNEMPLOYED.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 302, 25 June 1909, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

[FBEBB ABSOOIATION.I

DUNEDJN, yesterday

Work lias been offered to all the married men who have made application to the Labor Bureau at Dnnedin, and some of the most necessitous cases among' the single men have beeii provided for. The City Corporation have found employment for 60 bands.

Perhaps the most expert and intrepid of living lady motorists is Miss Dorothy Levitt, whoso book, entitled "The Woman and the Car," is at-

tracting considerable attention. She has driven a motor-car at the amazing speed of ninety-two miles an

hour

Mine. Curie, who is.to be one of the sectional presidents at the International Chemistry Congress, was really the discoverer of radium, although her lato' husband is generally credited with that achievement. It was entirely due to Mine. Curie's investigations that the new element was discovered in pitch-blende.

His Holiness the Pope can be very jocular when it pleases him. A bishop of the English Church who dined with him on one occasion was surprised after dinner, to see his Holiness smoking a Turkish cigarette. He even ventured to speak of it. "Does your Holiness really smoke Turkish cigarettes?" he asked. "Yes," answered the Pope, smiling. "Up to this timo I have- been unable to Christianise them." '

Admiral Sir William May, who has hoisted his flag on the battleship Dreadnought, on assuming command of the reconstituted Home Fleet, will be the supreme officer ,over all the men-o'-war in the Home waters. Under his order ivill be the largest naval force which ever existed. Sir.William is just fifty-nine. He joined the .Navy whan be was thirteen, and. when he was twenty-three served in the Arctic Expedition of -1875. He is a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.

It may be remembered, apropos of the meteoric career of Lord Milner, who was fifty-five the other day, that, when he got his peerage certain newspapers contended that lie was a German alien, and, as such, could not sit in tlio House of Lords. ,As a matter of fact, Lord Milner, though educated in Germany, was born in England. His father, Dr Milner, might perhaps have been described as "a German subject," since he- was born in Germany. But Dr Milnor's father was English, and the son of an Englishman is always an Englishman too, wherever he may have been born. Lord Milner has been described as society's most incorrigible bachelor. His engagement has never oven, boon rumoured.